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...Alongside a couple of Gershwin overtures, Kirill Gerstein was soloist in Gershwin’s Piano Concerto, sporting eloquent musicianship and making the keys sizzle in his encore, Earl Wild’s virtuoso riff on “...
...The author Richard Adams once wrote that he “hated” which song — written for the film version of one of his books?...
...Richard Attenborough, late grandee of British cinema, is just one among the famous names to mimic Noël Coward in glossy new documentary Mad About the Boy. The impression proves a showstopper....
...A rare self-made billionaire who styled himself after Richard Branson and secured a statement of support from the Virgin founder for his sanctions challenge, Tinkov has long been an outlier in the Kremlin-dominated...
...mixes some who were in the production first time round — Samantha Price’s pirouetting Iolanthe, Ellie Laugharne and the buoyant Marcus Farnsworth as Phyllis and Strephon, Ben McAteer’s stentorian-voiced Earl...
...‘Player Kings’, Noël Coward Theatre, London, April 1-June 22, then tours, playerkingstheplay.co.uk. ‘Oedipus’, Wyndham’s Theatre, London, October 4-January 5, oedipustheplay.com...
...Now try this I had a lovely weekend: the high points were seeing The Motive and the Cue at the Noël Coward, which you can watch at cinemas throughout the UK — find your local screening here....
...The Motive and the Cue opens at the Noel Coward Theatre on December 9. Follow @FTMag to find out about our latest stories first...
...Odey was known for another predilection: hiring “earls and girls”....
...Two of Whatmore’s other characters are Irish — Edmund Burke and William Petty, the earl of Shelburne, a politician who created a kind of intellectual think-tank, the Bowood Circle....
...Does the latest volley of insults, in which Noel called Liam a “coward” and Liam responded that Noel “hates” Oasis fans, mean a rumoured return in 2025 is off the table?...
...‘The Motive and the Cue’, Noël Coward Theatre, London, December 9-March 23, nationaltheatre.org.uk; ‘The Hills of California’, Harold Pinter Theatre, London, January 27-June 15, hillsofcaliforniaplay.com...
...Nowadays, I expect you to not get high / From Richard Hall, Wareham, Dorset, UK Steps in a new direction for the gentlemen’s club / From Jacqueline Castles, London W2, UK...
...Established by Crispin Odey in 1991, the hedge fund firm was renowned for hiring “earls and girls” and for fund managers who brought shotguns to the office before dashing off on weekend shoots....
...It’s a compilation of songs by western musicians, including Jackson Browne, Marianne Faithfull and Richard Thompson....
...Richard Nixon arrived in the White House in 1969 vowing to end the liberal Warren court, and he did....
...The moment when Tom Hollander’s Berezovsky realises just how far he has underestimated the new president has the force of a scene from Richard III....
...The executive: Amanda Mille Amanda Mille, 44, never assumed that she would join her father’s Swiss watch brand Richard Mille....
...Celebrated tax exiles range from playwright Noël Coward to actors Sean Connery and Gérard Depardieu....
...You had dukes, marquesses, viscounts, earls. Odey Asset Management feels like a sort of boy's public school, a gun cabinet to store your gun before the shooting weekend....
...A gift from her husband James Wemyss (the 12th Earl of Wemyss and 9th Earl of March, and the reason Feilding is a countess), it dates from “thousands of years ago” and is a symbol of their shared fascination...
...Singer Richard Hadfield, the regular Sunday-lunch musical entertainment, has shared a stage with stars from Gregory Porter to Shirley Bassey....
...It is there in the pervasive dinner-party trope that, yes, Richard Dawkins is “right”, but must he be so beastly about it?...
...Morgan Stanley’s leveraged finance team, led by banker Andrew Earls, held a series of due diligence calls on the takeover, codenamed Project X, people briefed on the calls said....
...The bequest features many of the greats of the 20th century, from Richard Avedon to Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks and Nan Goldin, as well as her own photographs....
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